Space Race of Weapons: The United States strengthen the potential in orbit due to threats from China
Major-General David Miller in this connection stated that the US space forces urgently need to develop a wide range of offensive and defensive weapons based in orbit to confront China. About it reports Breaking Defense. "We need to stop disputes about whether it is a hostile area, to stop disputes about whether weapons are there and to move on to how we are responsible, as part of a joint and combined forces He doesn't want to see, "Miller said.
According to him, it remains in question whether US forces will be able to win in a potential conflict with China in space, so it is necessary to find, record and deprive any opponent of the initiative. The authors of the publication noted that there is a specific space doctrine in the United States.
In particular, the document "Creating the US Anti -Tained Potential: The imperative for the defense of America", which states that the United States requires its own anticossmic capacity to confront these threats and keep China and Russia from the use of such weapons. "Recognition of space in the area of hostilities means that any serious effort to ensure space security should include space weapons," the document reads.
In addition, the document emphasizes that China quickly expands its own military space opportunities - such as intelligence, observation, communications, etc. , to be able to fight the US military in potential conflict. The US space forces require offensive weapons to deprive the benefits that it will receive from these new opportunities that the US forces are struck.